Re: Garbage Collection

["Denis Lamarche" <brainwav@...>]

What if I did this:

[LUA CODE]
red_door=32

and then run millions of things for about 24 hours. If I dont touch the 
'red_door' var, will it be gc'ed after that long period of time?


> From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
> Reply-To: lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
> To: Multiple recipients of list <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
> Subject: Re: Garbage Collection
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 04:26:12 +0200
>
> Denis Lamarche wrote:
> >
> > Does Lua garbage collect its own variable or those on the stack or both?
> > If I set the gc tag of a lua variable to nil, will it still be collected 
> be
> > the gc?
>
> Hmm... you can't set tags on variables.  Only on tables and userdata 
> objects.
> So I guess you mean that.  Yes, they will be collected.  The gc tag allows
> you to set callback functions for userdata objects.  It's just a function
> that gets called just before the object is freed.  And the object will be
> freed when it's no longer used, whether you set a gc-function or not ;-)
>
> Ciao, ET.


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